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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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Born Courage Fate Man Patience Suffering
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
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Affair Brilliant Charge Expectation Man Misfortune
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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